Dictionary entry

Wold

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wold (?), n. [OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. völlr, a field, and probably to Gr. � a grove, Skr. vā�a a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald.]

1. A wood; a forest.

2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not.

And from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied. Byron.

The wind that beats the mountain, blows

More softly round the open wold. Tennyson.